Thing To Be Today, Possibly: chubby.

The wonderful stone age sitcom The Flintstones:


(here it is in a later computer-game guise)

 had a story once where Wilma



 and Betty



 got jobs advertising some food stuff on television.

(It was, obviously, a stone television.)

As far as I can remember the advertising jingle they had to sing had an ending that went something like:

If he's a chubby hubby
He's a happy pappy!

To be chubby is to be endearingly rounded, but we seem to have lost sight of the appeal of chubbiness. We strive to appear emaciated, and, failing, give up entirely and before we know it we are buried hopelessly in our own bodies.

Perhaps we need a campaign to celebrate a little chubbiness, just the occasional intriguing wobble.

Well, it just started here.

Thing To Be Today Possibly: chubby. This word appeared in the 1600s. It might refer to the agreeably plump fish called the chub:


Illustration by A F Lydon